The purpose of this research was to examine a qualitative evaluation tool known as an “Analog Blog” for attitudes of fifth grade students participating in an overnight environmental education experience. Currently, this ...

This study examined teacher and parent perspectives of early literacy learning to begin to document practices that are used to teach literacy to culturally and/or economically diverse kindergarten students. Through individual ...

The Potomac River basin is home to more than six million residents and has experienced moderate and severe droughts in the past (e.g., 1930, 1966, 1999, and 2002). With population growth and consequential increasing water ...

As more and more people begin living in urban areas the role the built environment plays
in creating a livable urban space is increasingly important. This research examines Jane
Jacobs’ four generators of urban diversity, ...

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a reliable scale for
measuring teachers’ willingness to initiate change efforts in their schools. A 64-item
pilot instrument was developed by a panel of experts (n=4) ...

This dissertation takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining public policy. On one level, the dissertation is a case study of the use of methodological triangulation to understand the values and beliefs of people ...

Large software systems can be designed as a set of loosely coupled services interacting with each other; simple services can be composed to form more complex services. But, for services to be usable in production, they ...

The scientific pursuit of the mind-brain relationship demands the ability to quantify
subjective cognitive phenomena. I applied two new psychometric tools, called
CRAM (Cued-Recalled Autobiographical Memories) test and ...

An all electron hybrid density functional approach (DFT) with very large basis sets was
used for studying Ca(2) through Ca(19) and Zn(3) through Zn(11) neutral clusters and their cluster
anions. Energetics, structure and ...

Atmospheric free radicals play an important role in the chemistry of the Earth atmosphere. Yet, there is limited knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of complexes such radicals can form with other components ...

This thesis focuses on the dearth of scholarship within queer theory, masculinity studies, and queer television studies on the queering of straight masculinities in media. Furthermore, the work that has been done on the ...